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Humphries out today.

Out of state captivity but entering his own prison for life.

There were many decisions in that game that should be deeply concerning for the GAA and GAA fans. You could not credit it to a bad day at the office for Deegan, it was the willful way he ignored blatant fouling and cynicism on one hand and engaged in pure guesswork to punish innocuous contact on the other hand, all to the beneficiary of one side. The bias was not subtle, it was not hidden and there's barely been a peep about it - I've seen far better, much fairer refereeing performances been the subject of scrutiny and criticism in the past in games where it had less influence on the result.

There seems to be an element trying to hush the serious issues and grievances with Deegan. The conduct of Kerry, their players, management and ex players is regularly expunged fairly quickly in the media but with Tyrone they still bring up acts from 15 years ago. You will have the usual idiot savants like dublin7 and those regularly listing unsubstantiated claims against Tyrone but he won't look at his own county in the same light.

I'd just like a level playing field for all but it doesn't seem Tyrone will ever get that and you can guarantee if Armagh or Derry ever came back to the top table and stuck about they would soon understand. Some people from Armagh must have particularly short memories.

You are 100% correct about Deegan.  Tyrone were not the only Ulster side to come out the wrong side in the second half of a game - think back to Castlebar and Armagh Mayo game. He denied Armagh a chance to come back with his timekeeping.  At least Tyrone got 7 minutes to try to turn it around.

The problem arises when your team is beaten and you try to raise issues about the referee, it smells like sour grapes.

Letting Cooney go looks even more like the wrong move......

https://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/rugby-world-cup-2019/doubts-grow-over-joey-carberys-world-cup-hopes-after-munster-outhalf-undergoes-ankle-procedure-38410393.html

why should we give him credit? he's running down amateur players for his own ego and for the cash. theres nothing admirable or honourable about that. for a fella who likes claiming that other people have no integrity, he's lacking in a fair amount himself

This constant referring to amateur players by so many 'gaels" is a misty eyed nonsense. 

Anyone who plays for a county senior team in the modern era is far from being an 'amateur' player.  Virtually all are well looked after, all the necessary gear, food after training and games, all transport paid for and for quite a few jobs or job opportunities that would not be otherwise available. Yes, they put a lot into the time and effort required but there is a lot in return. Some can even make a good living on the back of being a county player without being actually paid for playing.

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Brolly's head must be swelling knowing there's hundreds of pages with his name on the thread.

I wonder could we change the thread title to 'GAA Pundits' or something similar.

Doesn't look possible as the OP has not been on the Board for a while.

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You should do speeches, in a home.

Does the home have sky?

The inference being it was so long winded and boring it would send one to sleep, so best being reclined to listen, your inference being?

How so? I managed to read it.

As someone not particularly well informed about the ins and outs of Mayo football  i personally thought it was a very well constructed and interesting post.

+1

Big fan of the NHS but I do think some sort of nominal charge for a GP visit should be applied, if only to root out the timewasters.

Stick in some sort of clause whereby you didn't pay more for multiple visits for the same condition (on the Doctor's say-so).

There are a serious amount of people who wouldn't actually need an antibiotic for a head cold if they had to pay a tenner for it.

Same here. Despite the doom mongers the NHS in N.Ireland does an unbelievable job.

The problem that has developed is that people are so used to feeling entitled to everything being free that they now want no restriction on provision. An example is free prescriptions, there needs to be a restriction on what can be prescribed for free and those who can pay should make some contribution to at least pay for the prescription charges. 

The waste in prescribing is an on-going and uncontrolled issue. Also the waste in items that can be reused is an issue, e.g. crutches, moon boots, zimmer frames, rollators, etc are all non-returnable or collected for recycling as scrap metal rather than re-use.

Missed appointments are the major cost to the NHS and severely decrease its efficiency. They play an important part in keeping waiting list longer as doctors are left sitting doing nothing during planned clinical sessions that can never be recovered. Those who miss appointments should face a penalty to make major inroads. All clinics and doctors' surgeries are now showing the number of missed appointments and they are a concern.

Could you translate please?

Precisely my point!

Fully expected John Cooney to be on the plane I think he's a better player than Luke McGrath and can cover Out half. . . seems strange!!

In addition he can kick points with considerable accuracy. Important versatility when the regular 10s are showing tendencies to be easily injured.

So far, Cooney, Bealham, Haley, Scannell and Dillane have been told they are not good enough.

So Bernie is happy to keep part of Ireland under British Rule?

Weighing her opinion and your disrespectful attempt at sarcasm, it is not difficult to know which side most informed people will take cognisance of.

[Bernadette McAliskey: 'Who in their right mind would vote to join the Free State?']

From Belfast Telegraph.........

Bernadette McAliskey: 'Who in their right mind would vote to join the Free State?'

August 13 2019

Veteran civil rights campaigner and former MP Bernadette McAliskey has questioned "Who in their right mind who right mind in a border poll would vote to join the Free State?"

Ms McAliskey made the comments at event in Londonderry on Monday night marking the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Bogside in August 1969, when three days of rioting led to the start of Operation Banner.

Bernadette McAliskey was one of those involved in the events of August 1969.

Speaking on Monday night alongside fellow campaigner Eamonn McCann, Ms McAliskey warned people across the island of Ireland "need to get out of the nationalist conversation".

She said that there was no "progressive nationalist agenda on this island at this time".

"Who in their right mind in a border poll would vote to join the Free State?" she added.

Bernadette McAliskey said the lesson from 1969 was that "spontaneity needed to be planned for".

"I don't think there's any point in remembering or commemorating other than to learn from the past what we can do in the present to shape the future," she said.

In recent months calls for a border poll from Sinn Fein have increased, with the party's leader Mary Lou McDonald stating it would be "unthinkable" if a poll was not called in the wake of a no-deal Brexit.

MH has kept them at a level where they are still competing with the big counties. For a team who have lacked real scoring forwards (bar McShane this year), I'd say he's performing above expectations.

Might be on the same field competing but they have been beaten every time. Played 11 against Big 3 lost 11. Hardly competitive.

[In the 11 years since Tyrone last won Sam Maguire, they have played the other big three of Dublin, Mayo and Kerry on 11 occasions. The fact that they have lost all 11 has raised questions of whether the issue is down to the strength of their panel or their tactical approach.]

Interesting fact from an Indo article in which Tomas O'Se wonders about the hold Mickey Harte has over Tyrone football and whether it is good for the county......

In the 11 years since Tyrone last won Sam Maguire, they have played the other big three of Dublin, Mayo and Kerry on 11 occasions.

The fact that they have lost all 11 has raised questions of whether the issue is down to the strength of their panel or their tactical approach.

Watched the full game last night and hand on heart don't think deegan rode us. Maybe 2 softish frees for Kerry early second half but only look soft when u see replay.

So what's your opinion on the team management?

From the Indo, the word directly from Mickey Harte........

Meanwhile, Mickey Harte has argued that Tyrone were victims of some "harsh" refereeing calls in the second half as his Red Hand charges faltered within sight of an All-Ireland final.

Asked specifically if he thought the referee had been harsh on Tyrone, Harte responded: "Well, that's an interesting question you ask. He obviously played a big part in it because he was very important, he made a lot of decisions ... you certainly would have looked at a few decisions and thought they were harsh."

Asked about any in particular, the Tyrone manager replied: "I felt it seemed to be easy to get frees at certain stages of the game - and this seeing things in the distance ahead of the game.

"One I thought was really strange, we were coming out with the ball, Mattie Donnelly is coming out to try and present for it and he's blown for holding.

"Now, I wonder why he would want to hold the defender? He'd want the ball, not to be holding the defender.

"But these things happen and I'm sure everyone will look at it through their own coloured lens ... and to mine, in the immediate reflection, I though there were a number of decisions that weren't good for us."

For all that, Harte conceded that Kerry were a team transformed in the second half.

"I thought we had a good first half and probably felt we could have been a wee bit further ahead - and that might have given us more of a platform to go on with," he reflected.

"We did expect there would be something more to Kerry, and I think we caught them a wee bit by surprise in the first half and they had time to reflect on that and regroup.

"They came out with a different attire in the second half ... they were up for the challenge, up for the fight. As the game went on, that became very apparent.

"And I suppose when it got close, a point for point game, a goal was going to be major for any team and that's the way it turned out.

"A goal meant Kerry only had to cover point for point and they were going to be in business. If we got a goal, I'd like to think we would have done the same thing, but we didn't and they did and that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes."

Harte expanded: "Kerry were different, they played with a different system in the second half ... I just think that half time is a dangerous place.

"If you are going well, you don't want half-time at all. We were going well up to half-time and that's a time-out to be able to make adjustments with settled minds — that was half-time at a bad time.

"You try to talk the right language to get your team to win the second half. That's what we tried to, and we would have been in the final. We didn't manage that, which is a shame," he concluded.